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Strike Witches is the bane of my existence. I'd hit it soooooooooo hard if it wasn't for dem panties. If they wore pants (or even short skirts), I'd be rewatching an episode every day until I died: so awesome is the premise. But alas, my dislike of animated panties trumps even my WWII airplane love--my first love.

GuP's "no panty shot" rule was the best executive decision they made, imo. Actually made people take it seriously.

Strike Witches is the bane of my existence. I'd hit it soooooooooo hard if it wasn't for dem panties. If they wore pants (or even short skirts), I'd be rewatching an episode every day until I died: so awesome is the premise. But alas, my dislike of animated panties trumps even my WWII airplane love--my first love.

GuP's "no panty shot" rule was the best executive decision they made, imo. Actually made people take it seriously.

I agree with you. Completely. I think often why anime production companies done too much recently, about some sexual image exposure, indication of sex by minor, charactor nearly naked, weird personality stereotypes like Tundere(Yuck*), and overkill situation. Many of those factor makes ordinaly people to avoid anime, even hate, and push asides and away.
Then, Girls & Panzer. They're returns into some basic, even old standard story with much common sense. No over-eroticism, No Over-react mad persons, No Killing and Bloodbath. The ordinaly citizen can watch without unexity, bad feeling, I think that is a reason why G&P attracts many fan but not only Otakus. That's what I'm awaits long since. Long Forgotten Goodness.

- Making an original anime is very risky
- The plot idea is weird and can be a hit or miss
- People need to watch it to become interest in it and the anime take a while (~ep4) to show what it's really about.

The concept of GuP is actually not very original. I give the production team props for bringing the concept to TV, but this theme with girls & German tanks had been in existence amongst Japanese doujin circles for as long as I can remember. Though this is one of the few series that made sense...

The concept of GuP is actually not very original. I give the production team props for bringing the concept to TV, but this theme with girls & German tanks had been in existence amongst Japanese doujin circles for as long as I can remember. Though this is one of the few series that made sense...

Marina2 was referring to Girls und Panzer as original in the sense of "original animation" rather than "original story". The risk here is financial as Actas is a very small studio trying to make a brand new show, and it's likely that they had to fund much of the project themselves. Making the show effectively the first tank anime as a risk is part of the premise.

With better financial backing, they could have made it a 2-cour show, and they wouldn't have underproduced Blu-rays by this much. Incidentally, this increases the chance for a sequel. With the first show a bonafide hit, it'd be a lot easier to secure funding, and there'd be a lot of incentive to do so as well.

On a different note, I've always liked tanks, but I still wasn't sure about Girls und Panzer until a couple of episodes in. The main source of trepidation was the title: anime loves Nazi fetishization in general, and a German title hinted that the show would lean in that direction. I'm really glad that the show itself doesn't do this, and I give all the credit for this to Mizushima's strong direction. Just a quick glance at the fanart reveals that the fandom would have loved to go in this direction.

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China’s military media has been attracting ridicule in China and beyond after it published an article attacking bishoujo tanker anime Girls und Panzer for being secret Japanese militarist propaganda.
The piece, originally published by a PLA affiliated military newspaper, criticised Girls und Panzer for downplaying Japanese wartime aggression in favour of cute girls, even going so far as to suggest it was intended as subtle militarist propaganda and might help train the tank crews Japan is obviously desperate to send rampaging through China.

Even amongst Chinese, the notion that an anime this innocuous is implicated in a resurgence of militarism has attracted ridicule – although despite the online majority dismissing the criticism as crazed propaganda from their own military, some still insist only the Japanese devils could be sneaky enough to disguise their warmongering intentions with girls as cute as those of Girls und Panzer.